Senior End-to-End Architect for Arla Foods Ingredients - Viby

Location: Viby J, DK

Are you a strong technical profile with a passion for putting together modern IT solutions within the entire value chain of Arla Foods Ingredients? If yes, you should join the AFI IT team in Arla IT.

In your role as Senior End-to-End Architect, you will be a key player in our organization and will together with the rest of the AFI IT team be an instrumental part of succeeding on our digitalization journey. Arla Foods Ingredients (AFI) is an independent company within the Arla Foods Group, consisting of a little over 1700 colleagues globally. AFI is the global leader in delivering premium nutrition for the global Early Life Nutrition, Medical, Sports Nutrition and Food Industries – all through the power of whey protein. In the AFI IT team, we are responsible for inspiring, maturing and delivering strong solutions to AFI through our delivery setup in Arla IT.

How you will make an impact
This role involves learning and understanding the AFI business and Arla IT landscape. The responsibility includes collaborating with IT architects, identifying solutions for the entire value chain, and understanding the differences between AFI and the rest of Arla Foods from an IT perspective. The role also involves identifying existing solutions in Arla IT that can benefit AFI and partnering with the business to implement these solutions, ensuring the delivery of desired business value. Additionally, you will play a key role in driving the technical direction and development through a roadmap, engaging with enterprise architects and business stakeholders to support the business strategy.

You will be based in the Arla IT department in Viby, Aarhus with some occasional travel activities (approximately 20-30 days per year).

In addition, the role includes:

• Using your extensive knowledge, you will play a key role in the development and maturation of new projects, working closely with the appropriate delivery streams in Arla IT.
• Together with the business, you will make informed decisions on which solutions to implement, ensuring the delivery of desired business value.
• You will have the overall responsibility for the end-to-end architecture, encompassing multiple cloud technologies and collaborative applications.
• You will set the technical direction for your area and collaborate with a group of solution architects to ensure a global, standardized, and scalable architectural design across our markets.

What will make you successful

To succeed in this role, we imagine that you:

• Are a highly experienced IT architect and have proven yourself in the area of Enterprise-grade applications and platforms over the past years. With your technical insights, you can provide valuable guidance and navigate in a complex system landscape.
• Have the ability to estimate the implementation of a possible solution and you’re not afraid to go into the details yourself.
• Are familiar and will be able to familiarize yourself with modern Saas and Packaged solutions, along with Arla-developed Paas services and Azure integrations.
• Possess a strong knowledge of IT development, modern architecture, and cloud, with preference given to experience in sales and supply chain domains and familiarity with platforms like SAP, Azure, and Aveva.
• Have a knowledge of advanced analytics, data-driven insights, and IIOT is increasingly important for future designs, especially as AFI focuses on digitalizing their supply chain.
• Having experience in the pharmaceutical industry is an advantage, as AFI is investigating the fields of this industry.

As a person, you are driven and motivated and approach all tasks with a positive attitude. You should enjoy working independently and display an eagerness to work in an ambitious environment where technical insight together with strong collaboration skills makes you able to achieve great results.

What do we offer?
We're excited to offer you a stimulating work environment in Aarhus, where personal growth and learning are at the heart of your career journey. You will be working with skilled colleagues and become part of an IT organization of around 570 colleagues with our main hubs in Viby and Gdansk. We’re committed to professional development and promoting from within. Our positive and collaborative culture will bring out the best in you.

Would you like to join us?
If you want to seize this exciting opportunity, please apply as soon as possible. We will review all incoming applications on an ongoing basis. For additional information, please contact IT Business Partner, Maja Malling Jakobsen, at [email protected].

We have a purpose for Good
At Arla, we strive to unlock the highest potential in each other while working together to create a sustainable future of dairy. We call it Stronger People Stronger Planet and it is deeply anchored in our organisation and founded on our commitment to respecting human rights, increasing access to healthy dairy nutrition, inspiring good food habits, and improving the environment for future generations. In order to succeed we need to hire people with a sustainable mindset. Could this be you?

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